Improvement in closing leaks in hose, fifes, and tubes



Ctuited time @met Gemine.

RICHARD STREET, OEALRANY, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 98,893, dated January 18,' 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOSING LEAKS IN HOSE, PIPES, AND TUBES. i

The Schedule Iefen'ed'to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

\ Figure 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus or clamp embodying my invent-ion.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Figure ,3 is a transverse section of the saine, with a piece of hose or pipe inserted therein.

Figure 4 is a transverse section of the same, `with the hose or pipe removed.

A is a clamp, made of hard wood, or other substantial material, constructed in two parts, and connected at one end by ay hinge or hinges, a, and secured at the other end by a bolt, b, and nut c, o1 any other equivalent device. n 1

This clamp is bored out in' the centre, to t the size of the hose or pipe desired to be repaired.V

The hole thus bored out is lined at each end,and

lon the sides, where the parts ofthe clamp meet, with projecting strips of India rubber, (Z and-e, which strips are firmly attached to the body of the clamp, and in v such a manner that when the burst or leaky hose or pipe B is encircled, and the clamp closed and securely fastened, they press so tightly against thesides ofthe hose or pipe, that no water, gas, steam, o r air can escape. y

These India-rubber strips d and e are made and put in, in such a manner that when the clamp A is ope-n, as shown by dotted lines in tig. 2, theyproject slightly labove its inner face, so that when it is closed and securely fastened, they, the strips d and e, may be tightly compressed together, and form an air-tight joint.

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I claim, as my invention, the combinationot' Indiarubber projecting strips, with a clamp, substantially as and 'for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.-

RICHARD STREET.

Witnesses: A

`THOMAS SILSBY, ELIJAH DYGERT. 

